A history of Latin America to 1825 /

Bakewell, P. J. 1943-

A history of Latin America to 1825 / Peter Bakewell ; in collaboration with Jacqueline Holler. - 3rd ed. - Chichester, U.K. ; Malden, Mass. : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. - xix, 573 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. - The Blackwell history of the world . - Blackwell history of the world. .

Previous ed.: A history of Latin America : c. 1450 to the present. 2004.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Lands and climates -- American peoples -- Iberia and Africa -- Columbus and others -- Experiment in the Caribbean -- Military conquest -- Administration : the power of paper -- Church : friars, bishops, and the state -- Society : old orders changed -- Economy : ships and silver -- The seventeenth century : a slacker grip -- Eighteenth-century Spanish America : reformed or doomed? -- Colonial Brazil : slaves, sugar, and gold -- Independence -- Epilogue.

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